Rio

No, just no. Culture Club yesterday and Duran Duran today. How is this in the top 1001 albums? Lightweight 80s pop. There are better New Romantic/synth albums out there.

almost all songs were mid, nothing stood out to me or caught my attention.

Not my cup of tea at all.

1980’s yacht rock two singles and a lot of filler!

This encapsulates a lot of what I don't like about 80s pop. It would be nice if the music gave some kind of feel, but this doesn't offer anything at all. Empty, cheap pop

Last week, I accidentally ended up listening to some Duran Duran, and I thought it was actually pretty decent. But to be honest, this album doesn’t really rock.

Fuck these guys.

Not for me. Not aged well. I tried to like a few songs at moments but no.

I really tried. I thought I'd come to it with fresh ears and none of the baggage with which I first dismissed it, but alas.... I think my major problem is that they are obviously quite accomplished musicians but they just don't groove. Take the bass playing on Rio - it's sort of flashy, but it's also shit! I find his voice over processed and whiney, some of the lyrics are sort of funny, but overall the songwriting is so pedestrian. 'Save a prayer' is a particular bugbear. A horrible dirge. Add to the mix some of the most horrible sax playing from an era of horrible sax playing and you end up with something iconic only for being an emblem of shallowness of its era! If you want good 80's pop that really has survived the test of time listen to Human League.....

Dreadful. Everything wrong with the 80s

Bad

Poor, old pop rock All songs are the same

i can't stand new wave, i'm sorry.

pretty boring

80er Vibe ist nice aber ansonsten empfand ich es eher als Background Musik

не мое

One dimensional

Truly detestable. Annoying synth patterns permeate at least half the songs here, ruining them. The vocalist is obnoxious on every song, the guitars sound thin, and the choruses tend to be more irritating than catchy. The second half is at least a step up from the first half, with the most tolerable songs being New Religion and Save a Prayer, but they're not enough to save this from a one star. I found this so bad that I may go back and bump Dexys Midnight Runners up a star because in comparison that was incredible

80s new wave pop shite. Sorry.

Mostly different versions of eponymous song that I particularly dislike

Nope!

Did not like

If I can’t remember it ehhh

GOAT cover, drab synthy 80s BS, not listening to this or any of the songs on this again.

Why Why Why?

Aaaaaaagh! Make it stop!

Buah, those eighties! And there are eighties and eighties...

You've heard of backpack rap? I present to you fannypack pop!

Before this album I'd say youd never find me listening to Duran Duran. And Same now. I did an intro scan. its all I could manage.

Never liked ‘em. One star. (Which should be added to my Sinead O’Connor score, because I pressed 4 stars for her & only got 3). Thereby giving this a zero.

Ni de lejos es el mejor disco de 1982: Thriller, 1999, Avalon, Pornogaphy, Nebraska, los debuts de Felt, Coucteau Twins, Laurie Anderson o Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Otros como New gold dream, Glassworks, The days of wine and roses, Too Rye Ay... Hasta The lexicon of love de ABC es más representativo y elegante. 6 sencillos y 6 éxitos, como su disco, todo un clásico de principios de los 80, sobre todo por el empuje de la MTV: "My Own Way" "Hungry Like the Wolf" "The Chauffeur" "New Religion" "Save a Prayer" "Rio" Sin embargo en mi opinión son mejores el siguiente y sobre todo Notorius. Este ha quedado tan desfasado como su estilo de entonces. Han publicado discos y videoclips mucho mejores (Skin trade, A view to a Kill, Wild Boys...)

80’s. Too 80’s for me.

Ez du putzik balio

Definitely early 80s

Pop ochentero sin ningun interés para mi. No es mi estilo y no soy capaz de pillarle el rollo. Incapaz de escuchar 3 canciones. Prejuicios, o no?

Not good.

The intersection of cocaine and flash in the pan recording technology.

didn’t like

Just terrible terrible tosh

Ass

I just can't.

dogshit 80s music. "Oh wow synths were just invented let's fucking forget musical composition and make bullshit fucking trash and call it music because we put a simpleton's interpretation of an electronic beat on it." Actual trash I can't believe these hack frauds became famous for this horseshit. Also it sounds like the singer wants to rape people and I hope he gets what he wished on others.

FUCK YOU DURAN DURAN!!

I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS

Not for me

I never want to hear the hits again they’ve been so overplayed, and nothing else caught my ear.

Too much bad 80's for me

1/5. I mean, this is doesn’t feel new age or disco, just a bad mix of both. Even the single is hard to swallow. Just feels empty.

cringed

no. not at all.

No

It’s not you it’s me

absolutely not

Hated Duran Duran in the 1980s. Hate Duran Duran now.

Totalt ointressant för mina öron

Garbage

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What a load of shit

Couldn't lower myself to listen the crap that this band haemorrhaged.

Not great. Rio has this weird mixture of sultry somewhat aggressively creepy verses followed by the up-beat chorus, made me feel just... uncomfortable. After that, Hungry Like a Wolf is good but nothing else stood out. Most songs sounded extremely similar bar the last 2-3

1.5 | No todo el pop de los 80s era así de malo, en esta lista ya hemos tenido a Pet Shop Boys que sin ser maravillosos eran mejor que esto; sin contar que más en el estilo que usa DD están bandas con música mucho mucho mejor como Japan o Roxy Music. Quizá se oye exagerado el primer enunciado, si hay un par de cosas rescatables, los dos sencillos que sonaron tanto y siguen sonando como clásicos ahora en la radio son buenos, canciones pegajosas, con música bien hecha y cumplen muy bien su función. El problema es que son las dos canciones rescatables de todo el disco. El resto de las canciones son totalmente indistintas (al grado que no se da uno cuenta si cambió la canción o incluso si ya acabó el disco) e iguales a cientos y cientos de canciones de bandas de la época. Musicalmente no es malo pero simplemente se siente como la versión para las masas de otras bandas que hacían música mucho más interesante con sintetizadores. Lástima de verdad que no escribieran buenas canciones. La razón # 1 para escuchar este álbum fuera de que a alguien le gusten los sencillos sería el sonido del bajo, y no hay razón 2... eso sería todo. Incluso "Rio", hoy ya como un clásico del pop, contiene la frase realmente idiota "it means so much to me, like a birthday or a pretty view". Es un disco que rara vez se eleva por encima del promedio, a pesar del atisbo instrumental desaprovechado que se muestran. 0.5 Extra por el potencial musical y dos canciones decentes.

Nah. Don't like it. 80s soft rock sucks.

Nooo

Overproduced synthpop with no discernable difference among tracks. Rubbish

Rubbish.

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